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From: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libata: add support for READ/WRITE LONG
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 17:21:18 -0400
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Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> On Friday 16 March 2007, Mark Lord wrote:
..
>> I've tested ATA1 and newer PATA drives, and various SATA drives
>> with these commands without bothering to drop to PIO0,
>> and none of them had issues.
> 
> This is what really matters wrt libata READ/WRITE LONG support.
> 
> These commands are not supposed to be used by normal users anyway
> so patch while not being "perfect" is "good enough" to be merged IMO.

Heh.. I have a similar patch for IDE as well,
but not up-to-date for the latest kernels.

Cheers